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Legal Ethics
Legal Ethics Law360 provides breaking news and analysis on legal malpractice cases and attorney misconduct. Coverage includes criminal allegations, disciplinary actions, and recusals involving attorneys and judges, as well as legal rules and standards.
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Latest News in Legal Ethics
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April 15, 2026
Texas Panel Backs Atty Sanctions, Finding He Misled Client
A Texas appeals court has upheld a judgment from a lower court sanctioning an attorney for misleading a client into believing that his firm could offer representation in a wrongful death suit, saying that the evidence was sufficient to support his loss in the lower court.
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April 15, 2026
McElroy Deutsch, Atty Beat Malpractice Claims Over Fraud Suit
The New Jersey state appeals court on Wednesday affirmed a ruling throwing out a $300,000 malpractice suit against a former McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP partner, finding the trial judge correctly found the plaintiff's expert offered speculative, inadmissible net opinions.
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April 15, 2026
Terrorism Victim's Atty Asks Court To Toss Malpractice Award
A Baltimore attorney hit with a $721,000 damages judgment by an arbitrator over alleged malpractice amid his representation of a victim of the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in a successful lawsuit against the Republic of Iran has asked a D.C. federal judge to toss the arbitral award.
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April 15, 2026
UBS Must Reveal Atty Comms In Ex-Trader's $400M Libor Suit
A Connecticut state judge has ordered UBS AG to hand some communications with its lawyers and prosecutors in U.S. and U.K. criminal cases to former trader Tom Hayes, whose $400 million lawsuit claims he was made a scapegoat to shield senior bank executives from Libor-rigging allegations.
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April 15, 2026
Nadine Menendez Seeks Bail Pending 2nd Circ. Appeal
Nadine Menendez urged a Manhattan federal judge to keep her free while she challenges her conviction, arguing that prosecutors deprived her of her constitutional right to the counsel of her choice.
Areas of Coverage
- LITIGATION
- Legal malpractice cases
- Misconduct claims against attorneys and judges
- Criminal charges against attorneys and judges
- Kickback, bribery, and corruption allegations involving attorneys and judges
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- ENFORCEMENT
- Recusals and disqualifications of attorneys and judges
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